RWAY vs. IREN, WULF, CIFR, LX, HUT, BTDR, SII, CMPO, ML, and PGY
Should you be buying Runway Growth Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Runway Growth Finance include Iris Energy (IREN), TeraWulf (WULF), Cipher Mining (CIFR), LexinFintech (LX), Hut 8 (HUT), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Sprott (SII), CompoSecure (CMPO), MoneyLion (ML), and Pagaya Technologies (PGY). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Runway Growth Finance vs.
Iris Energy (NASDAQ:IREN) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
Runway Growth Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Iris Energy.
Iris Energy has a beta of 3.64, suggesting that its share price is 264% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Runway Growth Finance has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
41.1% of Iris Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.5% of Iris Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Iris Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Runway Growth Finance. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Iris Energy and 3 mentions for Runway Growth Finance. Runway Growth Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Iris Energy's score of 0.54 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Runway Growth Finance has a net margin of 27.05% compared to Iris Energy's net margin of -17.94%. Runway Growth Finance's return on equity of 12.91% beat Iris Energy's return on equity.
Iris Energy presently has a consensus target price of $20.40, suggesting a potential upside of 182.94%. Runway Growth Finance has a consensus target price of $12.04, suggesting a potential upside of 9.77%. Given Iris Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Iris Energy is more favorable than Runway Growth Finance.
Iris Energy received 53 more outperform votes than Runway Growth Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.26% of users gave Iris Energy an outperform vote while only 42.22% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote.
Summary
Iris Energy beats Runway Growth Finance on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RWAY) was last updated on 3/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff